Granny Tackett is the name I've taken in honor of my mother-in-law (her maiden name), whom I've, unfortunately, never met in person. She passed many years ago, but from the stories my husband told me, she is someone I would give anything to know! She was part Cherokee from the hills of East Tennessee, in the Appalachia Mountains. I know she has taught me much over the years, sending me information from the Otherside that I wanted or needed.


What I do is rootwork, and while I have the name "hoodoo" in the name, I understand that what I do is not the Hoodoo or Conjurer of the Southern United States. What I do is based more in that of the European immigrants who settled deep in the hollers of Appalachia. Rootwork and wortcunning being more correct terms. Also, the name "Hoodoo" was from my Boxer buddy who was never too far from my side until his passing with his best girl, Gris-Gris, on November 2, 2020. (See their photos below.)


I have spent my life not fitting in with everyone around me, preferring to be alone and in the company of books and animals over people. I have been drawn to the "Granny Woman" since I was very young but had no idea how to get to the state of being able to live as one. Choosing to be a rootworker/cunning woman/Granny Woman was not exactly something any "normal" person would aspire to!


I do not "worship" Gods, I work with the Divine in all Its forms, accessing Their powers to manifest what the needs or wants are of the specific works I am doing, whether for myself or others. If I am doing a work for someone else, I will call upon their Deity, or if I don't know Who that is, then I just call upon the Divine Energy that is in everything. A person's higher spirit knows better than the person does as to what it is that they need and will accept the Divine's help quite easily and without reservation.